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UNITED STATES PATENT ()EEICE.

PIERRE RENE BLOT, OF ANGERS, FRANCE, ASSIGNOR TO COUNT DE LA SALLE DE ROCHEMAURE AND EMILE LATTE, BOTH OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 417,534, dated December 17, 1889.

Application filed October 10, 1.889- Serial No. 326,553. (No model.) Patented in Fiance November 3, 1888, No. 193,824.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PIERRE RENE BLoT, locksmith, residing at 13 Rue du Canal, Angers, Department of Maine-and-Loire, France, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Paper-Files; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and

exact description of the same.

My improved paper-file (for which Letters Patentof France have been issued to myself conjointly with Louis Bonneau, dated November 3, 1888, No. 193,824) is illustrated in Figures 1 to 5, Sheets 1, 2, and 3 of the accompanying drawings. It is shown open in Figs. 1 and 2 and closed in Fig. 3.

It consists of a principal coveringformed of two pieces of card-board 1 2, connected by a-back 3. The back 3 is covered by an envelope or sheathing 4, Figs. 1, 3, and 4, of sheet metal, which forms a movable back of fiat or rounded form designed to be placed over the ordinary back 3 when the principal covering is full. For this purpose it is merely necessary to slip this metal envelope endwise over the back 3.

- In the hollow internal portion of the back is fixed a case 5, of suitable materialsuch as paper, parchment, or canvasin which is inserted a wooden pin 6, Figs. 1, 3, and 5. This pin has a pointed end and is inserted into the case afterthe sheets of paper have been placed in the paper-file. The pin has for its object to force apart the sheets of paper or other material, as shown in Fig. 1, the

outward pressure being received by the envelope 4. To remove the sheets, the pin is pushed back by any suitable means-such as a ruler or a pen-holder-and is then entirely withdrawn, and the metal envelope 4 is also removed. Then the papers will be free.

It will be obvious that the form and size of each apparatus, as well as the material of which it is made, may be variously modified to suit varying circumstances.

- I claim- 1. The combination, in a paper-file, of the card-boards 1 2 and back 3 with an envelope or sheathing 4 for the back 3, substantially as described and shown, and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination of a case 5, removable pin 6, with the card-boards 1 2, back 3, and envelope or sheathing 4 for the back 3, substantially as above described and shown, and for the purpose set forth.

3. A paper-file constituted by card-boards 1 2, back 3, envelope or sheathing 4 for the back 3, and case 5 and pin 6, the said pin 6 acting in its case 5 to force the bulk of paper outward against the sheathing 4, so as to hold the bulk firmly within the paper-file.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PIERRE RENE BLOT.

Witnesses:

R. H. BRANDON, A. LE OANo. 

